Louis C.K. told Sarah Silverman that her monologue helped his daughter understand how to deal with her feelings about his sexual harassment. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP/Getty Images)

Louis C.K.’s daughter turned to Sarah Silverman for help wrapping her head around her father’s admission of sexual harassment.

Silverman, a longtime friend of the “Louie” comedian, shared her thoughts on C.K. admitting to masturbating in front of women in a monologue that aired on her Hulu series “I Love You, America,” in November 2017.

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The monologue, which came less than a month after reports of C.K.’s misconduct broke, found Silverman attempting to find a balance between knowing how horrific his actions were and knowing that he is an important person in her life.

“It’s a real mindf--k, you know, because I love Louis. But Louis did these things,” she said. “Both of those statements are true so I just keep asking myself: can you love someone who did bad things? Can you still love them?

“I can mull that over later, certainly because the only people that matter right now are the victims, they are victims and they’re victims because of something he did. So I hope it’s OK if I am at once very angry for the women he wronged, and the culture that enabled it, and also sad because he’s my friend.”

The hurting words proved especially helpful to C.K.’s daughter.

Silverman said that after she performed the monologue, C.K. called her and explained just how helpful it had been in allowing one of his daughters grasp the idea that you can love someone who has done wrong.

“He said it really helped one of his daughters to understand. She showed it to him and she said, ‘I can love you even though you did bad things.’ And we cried. It was a small silver lining in a very bleak story,” Silverman said Friday at the Paley Center for Media’s fall TV preview series.

C.K. has two teenage daughters, Kitty and Mary Louise, with ex-wife Alix Bailey. Kitty was spotted out with her father in New York City in March wearing a button on her coat that said, “No means no” in photos obtained by the Daily Mail.

Meanwhile, Silverman admitted that she did not want to speak about the C.K. scandal because she was “too close” to the situation to be objective.

She did, however, touch on the idea of a comeback for the disgraced comic.

C.K. gave it a go last month by hopping on stage at the Comedy Cellar in a surprise set that ruffled feathers, particularly for its tone-deaf jokes about rape whistles.

“I think he wronged people and my guess is he thought he could sneak on stage and try a few minutes. I have no idea, I haven’t talked to him. I understand the backlash of it,” Silverman said. “I suppose he would know that this would get out. And I agree, if he’s going to go on stage he should address (what he did) but also you can’t practice stand-up in front of a mirror. You have to have an audience.”